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A cross-monotonic cost sharing method for the facility location game with service installation costs

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In this paper, we consider the metric uncapacitated facility location game with service installation costs. Our main result is an 11-approximate cross-monotonic cost-sharing method under the assumption that the installation cost depends only on the service type.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60773185, 10401038) and Program for Beijing Excellent Talents (Grant No. 20071D050150020S)

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Xu, D. A cross-monotonic cost sharing method for the facility location game with service installation costs. Sci. China Ser. A-Math. 52, 2530–2536 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-009-0173-9

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